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Preparing the Printers

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6800-A2-GN22-30

January 1997

The system then prompts:

Would you like this to be the system default printer? (y/n)

TYPE: n

PRESS: Enter

The following messages appear:

Make sure that your host name appears in remote_host’s /etc/hosts equiv or
/etc/hosts.lpd file.
Make sure that remote_printer
appears in remote_host’s /etc/printcap file
Make sure that remote_printer
has a spool directory on remote_host
Putting remote_printer in printer description file and creating spool dir
Updating LP information . . . done
Updating /usr/spool/lp/default . . . done

The system then prompts as in Step 4. If you have more remote printers to configure, go to
Step 4.

8. If all remote printers have been configured,

TYPE: q

PRESS: Enter

9. Add the following line to the local processor’s /etc/hosts file for each remote printer server

processor with one or more remote printers:

IP-address remote_host_name

Where: IP-address is the internet address of the NMS host processor.

remote_host_name is the official name of the remote printer server processor.

NOTE

Remember that you must run rlpconf on the remote host to enter
the name of the printer in that system’s /etc/printcap file. Ensure that
the NMS host processor name is included in the remote processor’s
/etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/hosts files.

The entry in the /etc/hosts file is in the form:

IP_address local_host_name

The entry in the /etc/hosts.lpd file is in the form:

local_host_name